Contract Marriage: The Replacement Groom

31 Wrong door- contract signing

Realizing she had lost track, she gently hit her head before she beamed again. "Mr, can I return to my country?"

Seeing his face changing, she immediately let go of his hand and waved at his face in a hurry. "No, no, I'm not saying I want to divorce. I mean, uhm, this country is not for people like me. I want to return to my country but I can still remain your wife and when it's time to divorce, you can send the divorce. papers over and I'll-"

"No." His cold and stern voice sounded.

"Huh?" His reply startled her. What did he mean by no?

"Mr, there's no reason for me to be by your side, right? I have a career that I-"

"Miss, you have issues up there?" He pointed at her head. 2

Jeslyn shook her head out of reflex.

"Then, you mustn't have forgotten my condition for accepting the deal, right?"

"Eh, you said it's for a brat and-"

"That brat cannot travel out of this country, which means you'll have to stay here."

"But my career! I'm a singer, a well-known singer who will soon be climbing to be a C-lister in a few weeks!" She knew she was lying, however, staying anywhere in the world is better than staying in this country.

Maverick stayed silent for a while before he responded. "Being here doesn't stop you from doing anything. There are great companies here, I'll get Rex to find you one."

"No, Mr. I don't use the back door to attain my dreams."

"Neither am I giving you access through the back door."

"What do you mean?"

"What you heard... return to the house, your stepson will be back soon. How you make him trust you as a stepmother is all up to you." With that said, he walked away. Jeslyn's lips fell open in disbelief. What did he just say? Did he just...

"Hahahaha..."Jeslyn suddenly laughed. "It seems my life is just getting worse by the day. No problem, I'll endure, so far I won't die before I ruin those people." (1

She murmured to herself before she turned around and headed to the house.

Walking back, she caught sight of the sparkling blue-colored pool a distance away and couldn't help but beam. She loves water and she could envision herself a few days from now diving into that pool in her bikini.

Jeslyn entered the house and climbed the stairs. On getting to the passageway, she stopped and brushed her fingers through her hair.

This is unbelievable, haha..." she laughed awkwardly.

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She looked back to where she was coming from but no one was behind her, so she sighed and shook

her head.

"Well, we can't get lost, can we?... Jeslyn, you can do this!" She patted herself on the shoulder and continued to walk forward.

The complication of the passageway, plus the designs of the large doors got her confused.

"How can all the doors be the same? Where is the room I came out from? God! Why is a house this big and complicated anyway?.... Forget it, I can just open all the doors until I get to my room." The floor she's standing on has three rooms with the doors looking the same. She got baffled as to which room she should go into.

"Let's start with this," she said and walked to the first door on her right.

Turning the knob of the first floor, it didn't bulge... It was locked.

"This is not the room," she shook her head and went to the other door. "This should be it."

She turned the knob handle and... voila, it turned!

Jeslyn smiled and pushed the door open.

She stared speechlessly at what was in front of her. T-this isn't the room, she thought and was about to shut the door when she heard,

"Enter"

"Ah!!" The fright she got made her open the door wide with her hand holding tightly to the door knob while her body rested on the door. Maverick, who was standing behind her, watched her cute reaction for a while before he bypassed her and stepped into the dimmed room. "M-Mr. Can you please, make some noise while walking In the future? You almost scared me to death."

"No," he didn't look back as he threw her the answer.

"Ok, then I should just head to my room." As she was about to turn, his voice fell.

"Your room is not on this floor."

"Ah?"

"Last floor."

"Oh... ok, let me go-"

"Come in," he told her again.

Jeslyn walked into the dimly lit room and sat on the black couch.

Looking around the room, she found nothing to interest her. From the brown wall to the black couches and black doors, down to the hot chocolate curtains and brown rugs... It gave her the wrong feeling.

The only breather in the room was the white sheets on the bed, though it had a black duvet tucked

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into the bed frame from the lower half of the bed... so sickening!

'Must your room look like a coven?... Anyways, it's a beautiful coven, she shook her head at her taste.

Well, she might be the only person in the world seeing beauty from something that makes one's hair stand on end.

While Jeslyn was busy with her thoughts, Maverick dropped a document on the table.

"You should read through that and sign it," he said.

Jeslyn knitted her brows in puzzlement before she followed his jaw that was gesturing to the table. She looked down to see a brown envelope.

She opened it and pulled out the paper that had a 'contract' written on it.

She sighed-like she wasn't expecting him to really take this marriage to this degree.

Well, it was her idea.

Flipping open the pages, Jeslyn suddenly developed a headache. She rubbed her temple in frustration.

"Why must these contracts, terms, and conditions... In fact, why is everything about law this complicated, cumbersome, and exhausting? Can't they write things more straightforwardly? Ah, my head already." She lamented while flipping over the pages.

Jeslyn had thought she was thinking that in her mind until she heard a snicker.